ancient female coder, been doing this for almost 15 years

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September 1, 2011 at 6:56 pm #13963

squeakita
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Hello,

I’ve been doing this for nearly 15 years. All self-taught.

Started out building dynamic websites in ASP/VBScript, ASP/Server Side Javascript, MS SQL dbs. More recently I have jumped over to PHP/MySql, and just now getting into frameworks, like CakePHP.

I am very much a late bloomer, and have been pretty alone in my developing.

I am trying to turn over a new leaf and open my eyes to all the possibilities out there in coding. I have recently realized by not being ‘out’ there in the coder community, I have done myself a great disservice by not learning/sharing with others.

Nice to meet ya

September 1, 2011 at 7:14 pm #14890

Vera
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Hi there, welcome to GWG.

That’s really amazing that you worked with all these technologies.

Do you have a favorite? Which one? Why?

September 1, 2011 at 7:55 pm #14891

squeakita
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Hmmm…a favorite? that’s tough. I have got to say I am loving the cakePHP framework. I have been custom coding so much, that every time i start a new website I cringe. I had been using a custom asp/javascript framework. But I needed to step into this century. So we decided to do a project in cakePHP.

The framework gives me a solid foundation, now I can focus on the fun part.

September 2, 2011 at 8:09 pm #14892

Vera
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Well I understand that ASP is somewhat similar to ASP.NET, and the latter is definitely not outdated. Neither is js for that matter.

Granted, I only know a few theoretical concepts of ASP, as I only worked with ASP.NET. Prefer PHP to it, so much more free/open source stuff available for it, compared to ASP.NET
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